The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-04-13
CHEATING THE GALLONS.
FIVE MURDIsHEKS LYNCHMD AT
NOisKVILLE.

NOisKNILLE.
Armed Men Enter the County Jail and
EorcibIy Capture their Prisoners and
Hang Them TO Trees--No Clue to the
Participants.
(Erom the YorlvlIIc Enquirer, April G)
Yesterday morning opened on the
closing scene of one of the most fearful
tragedies ever enacted in York county.
With the brutal murder Of tho little in
nOUent boy Johnnie Lee Good, on the
evening of the Both of last November,
our readers arc familiar. On that eve
ming, as the investigation of the jury of
inquest and subsequent confessions de-
Yclopcd, the murdcrers proved to be
Prindlcy Thomson, Bailey DowdIc, Dan
Roberts and Nose Lipscomb, with Il num-
! Der OF supposed accessories before the
TACT, it being believed that combination
for the purposes of robbery and murder
existed among the negroes OF that ncigh-
! borhoOd, in Bullock's Greek township,
and adjacent to Broad River Several
OF the accessories or accompliccs whose
names We're divulgcd by the inyestiga-
tlon were lodged in jail, where they now
are.
Excitement ran high i'll the noighbor-
. hocd OF the murder, as indignation was
also manifested throughout the county.
The victim was an unohending boy less
than IourtcO II years old, the son of we'll
to-do and worthy parents, by whom he
was idOlized. In an unfortunate moment,
as Prindley Thomson confessed in the
jail, the little boy detected him, Nose,
Dan and Bailey, in the act OF stcaling
cotton from his fathers field. 10 pre-
vent exposure, the cotton thieves brutal.
y murdered BIN. Prindley made this
confessions:
''I went with them after the co5ton in
Mr.. Goods field, and left them there
Bailey iUJ the boys waist; ! jad his
carried thc rocks. We all went away by
the pasture ilcld. Bailey hit Mru first
with the rock when we first got hold Of
tic boy. Dan saw the boy first Dan
said: "Boys, youder is Lee" Ba;ley hit
first, and Dan uy,t. Nose jumped on
Lis bowels
such was JAc material portion of
I Lrndlcy's confession, the wounds on the
ueNd body OF the hoy cGrroboraIug his
statement as to tho manner OF inl;iction.
/ After TINS confession was made aud be-
came known, ii being reasonably certain
OF the positive guilt Of PIndley, Bailey,
Dan and Nose, die pcnV up feeling OF
the western sldn OF Oh" county found
I yrnt III threats Of iyncLing, and Jcsidcs
tuc .uuvHamud, jua blood oil GiiGa Good,
( the supposed 'nStgutor Of the crime,
amt accessory, WAS uiao demanded.
/ sheriff >ileln, vigilout Tor the safety
/ OF iIs prisoners, becoming satisfied that
the tnrCn. oI lyuchnS would be at
\ tempted, on iGc evening OF December
/ lIth procured an order from Judge
/ NltEcrapOOu transferring them Tor safe
. keeping to the jail at Columbia, and on
thnt night they wore spirited away.
/ True 10 his expectations, about I O'Clock
on UAc following morning, crowd OF
/ ABOUT SeNcntT-hVc mounted men, undis-
8Wsed approached the jail, prepared
"ltIl axes amt 'scd6o hammers AM some
armed with anoo guns, AND Il nuutber OF
thcm s. iur!nG an entrance through the
corridor, procoedcd to the third floor
and commence', nattcring the wooden
shutter covcrn& the IRON dooc which
leads to the cells. by the time the
>hCnll was aroused py the noise and had
run mp TO the landing on the thlEd floor,
one panel Oh tic wooden SHUTTER was
knocked ont and the crowd were moving
on the works as though they meant bus
ness. When the Sheril lntcrposed, the
crowd desistcd until he convinced them
th9t the men wanted we're no. IN the
lHh. Inc Wholc party, WHICH,, aside
[ rom thcr demonstration on the JAIL, he'd
been qnlct ana orderly then pcaceably
roUG o'tt Oh toWh;
Ih' IoucfIi ioucu ihe Wouiu-Dc lynch-
! ctS ana saved MS prisoners, WHO ABOUT
the hour Oh the dcmonstr"tlon were III
North C"roilhH on their way TO Cohm-
pIR, "hcEc thcy remained uhtli iast Sat-
urd&y' Whch inc oherh dcputl@cd Dr.
"a. L. C"rIWflght ana Mr. James IL.
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